What are you doing?

Watching Oscar Awards can be exhilarating

You can celebrate with winners

I’m having steamed crab for dinner.

Where will you go

the beach is crowded with parasols

hundreds are inside movie theaters

triple digit temperature outside

 

Choices

On Wednesday and Thursday Mrs. Abstract and I had been attending the screening of upcoming movies at the Napa Valley Film Festival. We have seen remarkable movies:

Wednesday, we saw the documentary: “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth” and the screeing of “August:Osage County” with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.

 

On Thursday, we saw the screening of the documentary:

“If You Built It” : a year in the life of one of America’s most innovative classrooms. The film follows Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller as they teach the fundamentals of design, architecture and construction to a class of high school juniors in rural North Carolina. Faced with rising unemployment rates, a struggling educational system and simmering racial tension the people of Bertie County North Carolina turn to Pilloton, Miller and their students for help. … what the class designs and builds for their hometown has a chance to transform their community for generations to come. “

 

and the screening of the movie: “Saving Mr. Banks” starring Tom Shanks, Emma Thompson and Colin Farrell.

 

and  the documentary: “Monks of Vina”, story of  monks in a trappist monastery that makes wine. Vina is the place north of  Sacramento,CA where the monastery is located.

Mrs. Abstract and I are planning which venue to visit today.